For decades, astronomers have been aware of something weird lurking on old, 1950s-era photographic plates: starlike flashes ...

Flashes of light seen in the sky in old astronomical photographs may reveal the presence of reflective, satellite-like ...

Researchers poured over historical photographs in search of "transients"—short-lived flashes of light of the night sky.

WASHINGTON — The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency, as part of an investigation into whether it is acting as an ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming that Ukrainian forces are surrounded by the Russian army in two key eastern cities and is offering to negotiate a deal for their surrender.

North Korea's top diplomat has visited the Kremlin for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting follows last ...

Nancy Ramsey is a contributor to CBSNews.com. Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite. Five hundred miles above the Earth, it traveled at a speed ...

Sputnik V, the Covid-19 developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute, was the early rising star of Covid-19 vaccines. Now it is mired in controversy arising from the institute’s failure ...